It Happened at Westbrook

[Frozen Princess]

Inside bank @MsBloom

Windy huffed as what she had said, out loud, in the presence of the two, was seemingly ignored. "Geez, just like my so-called teammates. I don't exist." She grumbled under her breath, not paying attention to Alexa's physical change. She cleared her throat, and said aloud to be heard by Su-Ji. "I can handle that much. Like to know why I haven't heard anything since coming in here anyway. I thought I was part of the team. Just..." She made static noises, "is all I've heard. Tell the Cap I'll be right out with everyone, will ya, Cheshire? Please."

Shortly, she had everyone untied and heading out of the bank, taking the rear so she could catch any stragglers.

Getaway car, en route (still need a name for the farming community)

Erin narrowed her eyes at Blair, but held her tongue, for now. Although nobody deserved to be bullied, Blair was being just as unthinking. She had told the truth about what had happened, and no amount of torture and embarrassment was going to make her lie just to satisfy that ego. Erin resolved in herself that Blair was just going to hear the same truth until it got through that dense head.

Hill Street, just outside bank @MsBloom

When Windy came out with all the hostages (including Alexa in disguise) most of the rest of the police cheered, but a lieutenant grabbed Windy's arm. "Come on, Race Car, you're going to the trailer for a talk about your behavior."

"S'not my fault, I couldn't hear anything any of you said!" Windy pleaded, telling the truth. When the lieutenant held out his hand, Windy pulled out the earpiece and turned it over to him.

"Get this run, and thoroughly checked out. You better hope they find something wrong, or the Captain is going to skin your ass." He shoved her to the Captain.

"Give her a new earpiece. I'm going to give you a second chance, Velocity. IF you can give ME a good reason to trust you. How do we tail the bank robbers without them knowing?" Captain Fitzpatrick asked coolly.

"Uh... Wind power?"

"Explain."

"Look. They're going to spot a vehicle, or even a blue or blur, right?" Windy shrugged. "But what about an approaching tornado? It is Iowa after all. If I can create a whirlwind, and stay within the perimeters..."

Fitzpatrick held up a hand. "First off, Race Car, you're going to HAVE to keep the speed and whirling up the entire distance. Second, you will have to stick to the roads. What tornado does that?"

Greensburg, Kansas. 2007." An officer offered.

"THAT also took out 95% of the town!" Kirkpatrick hissed. "More recent and not as large!" Pinching her nose, she sighed.

"If those are the rules, I can do it, just give me another chance, and a com that's working. Please, let me prove to you I'm on your side!" Windy practically begged.

Sapphire, still in the school parking lot, and watched and filmed the car going South, describing ala golf announcer, it's direction. Stopping her live broadcast, she next texted Edith, Edith, tell the police, south on T-14! Nothing but farms that way, tho!

Kirkpatrick sighed again. "Fine. Follow the car, once we find out which way they went. Stay in contact! We'll have words later."

 

[Inkybus]

Getaway five-seater car - Schro @MsBloom @Frozen Princess

Schro did as Blair told him and drove, dropping all of his other point of views except for Captain Fitzpatrick, since he had to concentrate on driving the vehicle.

How do we tail the bank robbers without them knowing? was the question that followed and Schro could not help a wry grin spreading on his lips. He went ahead and put on the seatbelt, driving out onto the road that would take them out into the sticks and towards the farmland that Blair had instructed to go to, in order to go to the next phase in their simple plan to extract a semblance of justice from the detective that wronged them.

The Thinker mulled over the happenings of the robbery and idly wondered how the police would react to any more villains, should more crop up. If Alexa and Blair were metahumans, chances were that more existed and were not aligned with the group that had tried to face them before.

Signalling with the car's lights lawfully, he turned into the next street that would take the robbers and their hostages to Blair's selected place.

 

[MsBloom]

Su-Ji

As Alexa turned into a middle-aged man right in front of her eyes Su-Ji gasped with surprise.
"Way to go Mystique," she said with a smile and then helped another of the hostages up making her way to the entrance with them where Velocity brought them all outside.
"I'll just do one last round of the bank to make sure there aren't anyone else hiding in there," she said to the speedster and disappeared back into the bank while outside Windy was getting all the attention for saving the hostages. That in doing so she had also brought out one of the robbers in disguise was not something she knew about. If she had then perhaps things would have played out a lot differently when she brought out the hostages.

Su-Ji made her way into the back offices of the bank and found a few people who were in charge of everything from loans to financial advice. She told them that the robbers had left the bank and that it was safe to make their way outside where the police were waiting to take care of them. Satisfied that there were no more people to rescue in the back Su-Ji made her way into the basement and found the teller who had shown Blair the vault sobbing in a foetal position in a corner.

She took in the sight of what was left of the vault's door. Had one person really done that on their own? It seemed beyond implausible. She squatted down by the teller and told him, as she had told the others that it was safe to go outside but got very little response. Gently she then picked him up and carried him outside only to miss the others leaving to follow the robbers. She was however just in time to flag down Edith as she was about to follow them on her motorcycle (absolutely abandoning Sapphire to get there on her own) to where ever they intended to go.
"I need a ride," Su-Ji said and without waiting for Edith to reply got onto the motorcycle and held on.

Alexa

As soon as she had been checked out by the paramedics and given a fake statement to a uniformed officer Alexa left Hill Street and after having slipped into a shadowy alley to switch back to herself she began making her way back to the flop house to gather her things. It would probably not be safe to stay there anymore, in case Blair decided to come looking for her. Where she would go she had no idea though. For now a diner where she could hang out would do.

 

[Frozen Princess]

Bank. Hill Street 5:30pm @MsBloom

Windy had figured out which hostage was the extra, and only suspected it was Alexa. Hoping she was right, she sidled up to the middle aged man. "Need some help finding a place, check in at the Golden Spoon and ask for the owner, Mr MacEnroe. He should be there overseeing the reparations of the place. Or call him at this number." She slipped a business card with her dad's business cell on it. "Tell him Velocity will vouch for you."

Meanwhile, Captain Fitzpatrick got the information from Edith, before the reporter left, not giving Fitzpatrick a chance to tell Edith not to follow the bank robbers at all. "Looks like it's up to you, Race Car. Tell that reporter to back off from the getaway vehicle. We don't know how they'll react towards Detective Holmes or her if she's spotted. Once you get started, name the roads as you pass them."

Ginger looked around for Su-Ji, not knowing she left with Edith. In fact, neither did the Captain nor Ginger nor Sapphire, who was busy going back to her compact, to see Edith leave with Su-Ji.

Windy nodded, and then got ready to spin into a whirlwind. "Roger, and I know, stick to the road. I really wish now I had a change of clothes that would handle the friction. Let's hope the bad guys are just dumb enough to believe the tornado following them picked up a bunch of red clay."

Ginger glared. "Don't you mean pink, Velocity?" She then turned to Captain Fitzpatrick. "What do I do in the meantime? Twiddle my thumbs?"

"Unless you can follow the tornado without being seen? Yes. Park it, somewhere, Ms Magneto!"

En route @Inkybus @MsBloom

Windy named all the side roads heading out and after two minutes, the police heard Windy yell over her winds, "Ethel! Back off a little, if the bad guys see you, we can't guarantee your safety, or the hostage! Hi, Cheshire, give us a little bit, I got a working comlink! Let me approach as this tornado!"

Five minutes later, "Car in sight, following at forward speed on T-14 at 50mph, the speed limit through here... Whoop, we have to slow down to 40, just entered Farmer's Creek township. I'll let you know if we turn, we just might soon, but we lose jurisdiction at the Missouri State line."

The pink whirlwind would be seen in the side and rearview mirrors by now. Erin would see it in the rearview mirror as well as Schro, her eyes bugging out in fear. Velocity's winds had already been picked up by Des Moines Weather Service, and a tornado warning for Farmer's Creek had been issued.

"A tornado?! We're not going to outrun that! It's right on our six!" Erin gasped, thinking it was REALLY a tornado, and not Velocity.

 

[Inkybus]

Getaway five-seater car - Schro @MsBloom @Frozen Princess

Schro grit his teeth, wroth clearly writ on his face. "Such a shame that they decided to come after us despite the hostages."

And with that, Schro drove the car to the side, into the ditch. The tires squealed on the dry dirt and the grass that was mulched by the summer tyres of the vehicle. Immediately after, he killed the engine and called out to Blair: "Make sure the detective doesn't try to be a heroine: heavens know we don't need any more foolhardy attempts. I'm going to show them what it means to fuck with us!"

He concentrated once more on the POV of Captain Fitzpatrick, who saw a disembodied, floating humanoid shape that seemed to be like a kid that decided to dress as a ghost with a blanket overhead.

'He He he hE He hE!'

A demented laugh that prefaced it saying, with a voice like nails on chalkboard: 'YoUr CiViLiAnS wIlL sUfFeR! CaLl OfF yOuR dOg!'

While the hallucination spoke to Captain Fitzpatrick, the hostages that Schro had touched, including Erin, began to feel excruciating pain. While the detective was, maybe, more used to pain than others, this was not a simple bump-against-a-door kind of pain: it was as though they were being electrocuted in the abdomen, while also having their fingers smashed by a brick. Repeatedly.

Just as the hostages were, perhaps, talking to reporters or the law enforcement officers taking their account of the bank robbing, they screamed as this phantom pain rolled over every other feeling.

With the phantom pain in play, Schro held on to the steering wheel of the car, knuckles whitening and shoulders rolling as he prepared himself to weather the coming storm… no, tornado!

 

[MsBloom]

Blair.

Seeing the tornado approaching fast from behind, and having been raised on a farm knew what it could do, Blair dove into the back seat where they grabbed Erin and pushed her down onto the floor between the front and back seats with themself on top just in time for the tornado to pass them. As it did the winds shattered all of the car's windows, including the windscreen. Blair could feel some of the shattered glass bounce against their skin but no more than that. After that they didn't bother with checking if Schro too had managed to take cover but opened the passenger side door and dragged Erin outside. They were not that far from the Bailey family farm and with the car probably out of commission they now intended to cut across the field of corn that lay between them and the farm.

Rather than dealing with Erin being difficult by refusing to walk or struggling against them as the tried to drag her along they simply lifted her up and threw her over their shoulder and started walking at a brisk pace. The farm house should be visible within five minute, ten at the very most.
"Now don't you think for a minute I saved you from the glass because I care but because I'm not done with you yet bitch," they said turning their head to the side making it seem as if they were speaking directly into Erin's ass.
"Besides I need you in one piece to bring me Captain Asshat whom you claim refused to let you come back for me as you promised."

Edith/Su-Ji

It wasn't long before Edith caught up with the pink tornado that Su-Ji informed her was actually the human race car from the Golden Spoon incident.
"I'd stay behind it if I were you," she added as Edith began to zigzag across the width of the road as if looking for an opening to overtake Velocity.
She then informed Edith of the plan to have Velocity bring the getaway car to a halt. Or at least find out where it was going.

Edith slowed down a bit and dropped back, figuring that she was close enough either way to be the first media person on the scene, just as she had been at the Golden Spoon. She could actually smell the Pulitzer as she began to brake hard when she saw how the winds created by Velocity blew out the getaway car's windows and how only seconds later that same person who caused the incident at the Golden Spoon exited the car and threw Erin over their shoulder before walking into the corn field.
"Take the long route around by road," Su-Ji said and got off the motorcycle.
"I'll cut through the field as well. Thanks for the ride."

Alexa @Frozen Princess (Mr MacEnroe)

Alexa sat in one of the corner booths at the Golden Spoon nursing a Faygo Cola through a bent straw. She had taken the advice of the young meta who carried helped her out, whom she suspected must be Windy. She had called Mr MacEnroe and told him Velocity vouched for her and that she needed a place to stay. He had asked her to come down to the diner, which was temporarily closed for reparations but he had told her she could hang out there until he had time to help her further and offered her a Faygo Cola on the house.

 

[Frozen Princess]

Farmer's Creek, Bailey Farm property.

Erin, along with anyone else Schro had been in contact with, was in excruciating pain, and she was already doubled over when Blair sent her the rest of the way below the window level of the car.

As Windy roared by (literally) blowing out all the windows and causing the car to rock violently for only a few seconds, her 135 mph winds tugged violently on Schro to pull him out of the car and into the field and tumble him after them. Just as she did that however, she was called off. A lot of the former hostages were screaming in pain, causing her to relent and slow her windspeed. She made a left turn, more because she was naturally pulled to the east , but collapsed, exhausted and laid in the other farmer's tall grass, unseen by Blair on the other side of the two lane highway headed to their own farm. Schro, if he managed to stay conscious after his battle with an EF-2 tornado wouldn't see where the speedster fell either, as she'd have traveled about two full football fields farther south at her 40mph forward momentum, and a good football field into the other farmer's field to the east (240 yards, by 120 yards into the field, covered by her own "cut grass or wheat", and hidden by the tall stacks around her.

After a few seconds she touched her earpiece, "Man, I hated being a tornado... Suspects down, I think. I passed the getaway vehicle in a drainage ditch, but my winds blew out all the windows. Send backup to my coordinates, but don't say them over the air. I think I got made by the driver. Detective Holmes was in excruciating pain, I did notice that. Plus... What you said about the hostages."

Holmes was in no condition to fight Blair until the pain stopped, and even after, her muscles were tired from being tensed up from the pain. She sighed, and groaned, "You mean our commissioner." She moaned weakly. "At least you listened, thank you. Both for that and following tornado protocol when trapped in a car."

Windy finally staggered out of the wheat field, but due to the distance between her and Blair and Erin, could look like a farm hand that was caught outside from the storm. The farmer, his wife, and daughter raced to her asking if she was alright and commented about her racing suit and helmet, which would fortunately, or unfortunately, keep her on that property for a little bit longer. It was still up to Su-Ji and Edith. Only tea and conversation with the family would appease them, and she told Captain Fitzpatrick that, taking her even farther out of sight.

Mr. MacEnroe

John MacEnroe finally got back to Alexa, "Sorry about that, now about your issue. A place to rest, you say? I think I might know of a few, and anyone whom Velocity vouches for, has to be alright. The first place I can think of, isn't too far from here, and depending on your work ethic, you'll be able to stay there free of charge indefinitely. I and Mary, my wife, know the woman who runs it. It's a safehouse for runaway or abandoned teens. Very homey and loving atmosphere. There are chores there, though. Cutting the grass, trash, dishes, dusting... Normal everyday household chores, but in a group setting. Like one big caring family, and like a family, the house mother, or any of the girls would help you with either school work or finding a job. I'd offer the job myself, but..." He shrugged and waved his hand around to the work being done to repair the Golden Spoon. "My daughter and wife have been begging me to get a second waitress, but I can't offer even you a job, for about two or three weeks yet."

He then cleared his throat and gave a smile, "The other place, which can be yours as long as you want it, and probably what Velocity was thinking, is in our back yard, and even has running water, plumbing, electricity and it's own address. 777 1/2 Sunset Street. Catch is, you'll have to take care of the house, which is only three rooms, kitchen, bathroom, and living space, yourself, and tell me if there's anything that needs fixed like the electrical and plumbing. If you know drywall and some spot repairs, you don't need to bother me, just tell me about it and then do it.

Either of those two sound okay with you, Alexa?" He asked, finally sending it back to Alexa for her answer.

Sapphire

After waiting for the pink tornado to pass her spot on the school's parking lot, Sapphire watched her phone, and started following it's path south on T-14. Her car was fuller than it had been getting there, when it was just her, as the Captain and Cardio piled in with her, the Captain still in contact with Windy.

Fitzpatrick radioed in to the techs, "One ambulance, and paddy wagon. Follow us." She was careful not to give the location of where they were headed, per Velocity's request, having suspected the leader was the one who called her to call back Velocity and was somehow listening in on the frequency, though how still escaped her.

"I hope Velocity and Detective Holmes are okay." Ginger said worriedly.

 

[Inkybus]

Getaway five-seater car - Schro

The winds pulled violently at Schro, who ducked his head and held his arms up, biceps steadying his skull while the glass of the windows shattered and pelted into him, cutting him up a little. Angry red lines bled onto his white costume.

The seatbelt dug into his throat as well as the rest of his body, cutting off the airflow and this asphyxiation shut off his brain, as was wont to happen with not enough oxygen flowing to the neurons.

In the meantime, the affected hostages finally stopped screaming, as the phantom pain they were suffering from ceased upon Schro's loss of consciousness.

After losing consciousness, Schro remained incapacitated and restrained by the seatbelt for about eighteen seconds- as per usual for someone who was choked out but was able to breathe once again after that.

 

[MsBloom]

The Carter Family

"You're a strange looking one. Lost your race car did you? I'm Laura, this is my mom and dad, Peter and Elise. And you are?"
It was the fourteen year old daughter of the Carter family who delivered these observations, explanations and questions in rapid succession while rocking back and forth on her feet from heel to toe with her hands behind her back.
"Are you alright," asked Elise Carter and literally put a hand over her daughter's mouth to keep her from further pestering the pink stranger that had just walked out of the field where they had all seen a tornado swerve off the road.
"She can get a bit talkative sometimes this one. The doctors in town are evaluating her for ADHD."
Peter nodded and suggested that Windy should at least come back to the house with them and let them make sure she was uninjured.
"That's a great idea. Mom is the superbestest at patching up scrapes and bruises. Once she even pulled my shoulder back into its socket after I dislocated it. And you have to taste my lemonade. I just made some before Dad saw the tornado coming down the road from Westbrook. Odd don't you think. I mean if it passed through Westbrook surely there would be reports about it. Or maybe it has to do with that strange light last Sunday."
Laura kept talking without pause, barely stopping to breathe, all the way back to the farm house where she prepared a large glass of lemonade with ice and a bendy straw for their strange guest while Elise checked Windy's eyes to assess whether or not she had a concussion.
"Does it hurt anywhere?" she asked.

Blair

It wasn't far through the cornfield from the road to the Bailey's farm and even though they noticed that Detective Holmes stopped screaming an writhing in pain after just a little while she was still no match for them. When they stepped out of the field and onto the yard they put her down though they held on to her wrist.
"No funny business bitch. We're just going to have a little talk with my so-called family. Come out come out wherever you are."
It was a few seconds before a face appeared in the window of the house and then one of Blair's brother's appeared from the barn.
"Well looky here. So you've finally come back home have you. And you brought a friend."
"Shut the fuck up Billy, remember what happened when I left."
The brother called Billy raised his hands and backed away.
"Easy now Blurry. Calm down. No need to break another jaw like you did with Jimmys. Me and Jonas had to take him to the ER to get it set right."
Blair hated that nickname. Blurry but it was at least better than sissy or fagboy both of which were a lot more common coming from their brothers.
"It's Blair," they said and dragged Erin towards the house.
"You too Billy," Blair said as they opened the door.
"Everyone else inside?"

As Blair entered the house after his brother dragging Erin along they found their parents and second oldest brother all standing in the living room staring at them.
"That's right. The prodigal victim of your ignorant abuse returns. And I've brought a cop you can all confess to about how you fucking treated me worse than garbage just for being a bit smarter than you lot, not a great achievement really since you're all dumb as fuck. The fucking chickens out back are smarter than you all put together."
They then tossed Erin at their second oldest brother.
"Tie the bitch up, hands and feet. I have a feeling someone will soon come for her. And then we will have some fun."

Edith/Su-Ji

Using her cat skills, agility and stealth Su-Ji managed to stay hidden as they followed Blair through the corn field to what she figured must be the farm where they grew up. It also dawned on her that perhaps this had been their plan all along. The bank job hadn't been about money but about revenge. She had of course heard the conversation between Blair and Erin about what had happened back when Erin was still in uniform. The question was, as she sat on her feet at the edge of the cornfield watching and hearing the conversation between Blair and their brother, if this was their endgame. If their plan was to kill their family and then Erin, and possibly the commissioner as well.

Meanwhile Edith had taken the long route around and was approaching the Bailey's farm from the south along a narrow, barely paved road. She stopped before actually entering the yard and shot a few panorama shots while narrating what had just happened and where she was.

Alexa

She found it curious that this man, Windy's dad, would offer her to stay in his family's backyard. Sure Windy, Velocity had to be Windy after all, had vouched for her but for all he knew she could be a complete psycho, which, considering whatever it was that had somehow merged with her and granted her the gift of an all female anatomy, with a few side effects of course, probably wasn't too far from the truth. Yes. She, Alexa, was still for the most part herself but she heard all the violent and depraved things her shadow half constantly whispered in her head, like actual thoughts, and couldn't help bu actually be scared of what might happen if it took over completely.

 

[Frozen Princess]

Carter Farm

Well, it was a far, far better thing to be asked if she lost her car, than if she WAS a car. Windy smiled at the irony as she flipped her visor up. "No, the car this suit belongs to is still in the museum in Otho, it's last driver was my mom, and sponsor was where she worked part time at the time. The Golden Spoon. Hi, I'm Windy MacEnroe, her daughter."

She focussed on Elise and Peter afterwards, and nodded, agreeing to take her helmet off after they were safely away from any prying eyes, "I do think I should allow that, thanks. I think I was spun around more than if I had been in a car." She didn't tell them SHE was behind the whirlwind, since she had been forced to follow meteorological laws from creation to collapse.

She seemed distracted, and kept touching her ear, allowing Captain Fitzpatrick to hear the whole conversation. When asked she admitted she had an earpiece and was in contact with none other than the Captain of WPD District 3, and permitted the check for a concussion, removing her helmet completely. "I'm not at liberty to give any information other than that, though." She said, as she slipped the lemonade, thanked Laura for it, and the folks for their hospitality.

When asked about the origin of the storm and if it was in Westbrook, Windy promptly opened mouth and inserted foot, indicating EXACTLY where she spun up. "Yeah, touchdown was sorta the outskirts of town, actually. Hill Street and Westbrook Avenue, about a tenth of a mile northwest of where Westbrook is no longer named anything but route T-14." A true native of the area would recognize that intersection. A four way stop with the high school on the northeast corner and businesses on the northwest, including the bank branch, a few doors west of the corner.

Bailey Farm

Erin held her peace, eyes roving to each individual male, painfully aware of how she was pretty much only in police blue underwear. "I'm well aware of these problem people, Blair," She hissed under her breath with a glare to each one that could either freeze or boil away the polar icecaps, depending on ones preference.

"You're only making matters worse for yourself. I can understand your anger, believe me, I can. You didn't work under him and deal with him making you look stupid at least twice a week. Sounds to me, even back as a rookie, that was a common theme around here."

She glared at the one brother who had said Blurry. "And what kind of insult is Blurry?" Reading the room, and trying to impress Blair despite the situation she was in, she quipped, "Couldn't take that Blair can do your work faster than you? In a farm situation, you'd think fast and adequate work would be a boon, not a bust! Definitely not something to make fun of. Smells like jealousy."

Sapphire, Captain Fitzpatrick, Cardio

Sapphire stopped the car just in front of the getaway vehicle and Fitzpatrick stepped out, putting on her cap. The paddy wagon and ambulance pulled up behind it. "Ms Magneto, Sapphire, continue on to the farm per Edith's directions, rest of you, let's get this site secure. Patch the driver and put him in cuffs, hands in front for now." She looked at the movement in the other farm field to the east. "Rainier, get our little miss whirlwind from the farmers, and call her your partner. Also, ream your partner about giving away police secrets. The audacity! Telling them WHERE exactly she spun up? She needs her head examined!" And that's exactly what Elise was doing! "Rest of you, tag and bag all evidence you can, and check the whole car thoroughly. Remember what Erin said shortly after she was grabbed. 714 hears you, can't give 411. Find the other hostage!"

Schro would be handled with care, not just because of the injuries, but that he was suspected as the brains behind the robbery. It definitely couldn't have been the Wrecking Ball, was a lot of the police officers' thinking.

"I want to know exactly when he comes to, we've got a lot to talk about." Fitzpatrick stated.

Bailey Farm part 2, Sapphire and Cardio

Sapphire pulled into the gravel driveway and shortly pulled up right behind the familiar motorcycle, where she and Cardio hopped out. "I assume Cap wants you to find Cheshire and team up with her to stop Wrecking Ball. Go."

As Ginger took off into the cornfield, looking for Cheshire, Sapphire sidled up to Edith. "I hope you have a stellar game plan that gets all heroes and media out of this alive." She teased laying a hand on Edith's shoulder, as she also stayed ducked down.

 

[Inkybus]

Getaway five-seater car - Schro @MsBloom @Frozen Princess

Schro had regained consciousness for at least a minute and twenty seconds, before the police reached his location. He had undone the torn-up seatbelt and leaned back, grunting in pain.

He avoided jostling his left arm, given the large shard of glass embedded in the crook of his elbow: a genius he was not, but he definitely didn't want to risk getting the glass out and dying from a laceration in the brachial artery or one of the veins, though those were not as critical, or so he had heard. Blood dripped from his cheek, as his eyes glazed over and he took to watching two other points of view. Those of the robbers that he had started this whole robbery with.

Alexa interacted with a few other people, after she separated from the literal cat-girl metahuman and had made a cunning escape, before hanging out at a diner with her bug-out bag. That was something that kicked Schro's mental faculties into a higher gear for a bit, as he opened a second point of view and instructed with his disembodied voice for the gangsters that still used their former safehouse to get out and destroy any evidence or traces that they had been there, since soon enough the cops might arrive.

With that done, the masked menace sank further into the driver's seat.

The sirens announced the boys in blue and their paramedics, who flanked his car and demanded his surrender. Schro opened the door, put the healthy arm through the window and followed the police's instructions until they restrained him, carefully putting him on his knees on the street while keeping his hands in front due to his injury.

A paramedic fretted and prepared to cauterise the wound if it was necessary, a lightheaded Schro grumbling under his breath while a couple of policemen extracted his last hostage from the trunk, hale and hearty and with a massive trauma due to the threat to his life and subsequent captivity.

"Hell's Bells, this hurts… This is a deep pain." He hissed, before the eyes behind the mask moved with his head and he looked up at Fitzpatrick. And then his powers blinded him, to watch what Alexa and Blair were doing, listening to the latter with an ear while the other listened to anything Fitzpatrick had to say.

A pity that none of the police officers were keen of eye enough to notice the attention of the criminal wander like that: the good Detective would have sussed it out, were she not tied-up in a different predicament.

"We meet at last: how may I help you, Captain?" Came Schro's question, a cocky tone mixed with a hue of fatigue from this whole day going the way it did.

 

[MsBloom]

Detective Lieutenant Oscar Rainier

"Will do," Lieutenant Rainier confirmed and took one of the unmarked police cars, turned around and went back to the road that would take him to the Carter's farm.
It was not far and only a few minutes later he knocked on the door to the house.
"I'm Detective Lieutenant Oscar Rainier," he said, showing his badge, when Laura opened the door.
"Are you parents at home?"
"They are," Laura said standing up on her toes.
"Are you here for the race car driver who got tossed into our field by the tornado? Mum's taking care of her now. Seems a bit young to me to be a cop but what do I know. I think she's cool in her pink uniform."
Rainier ignored most of the rant from Laura as he was invited into the kitchen where Elise was just finished examining Windy.
"There you are Officer MacEnroe," he said and gave Windy a look to make sure she understood to play along.
"We have been looking for you. You are to report back to Captain Fitzpatrick immediately. She has a new assignment for you."

As soon as they were alone in the car and moving away from the Carter's farm Detective Lieutenant Oscar Rainier changed his tone and did exactly what Captain Fitzpatrick had ordered him to do. He gave Windy an earful about having revealed her point of origin.
"You do realise that for the captain's initiative of deputised meta-humans, such as yourself, to work there is a need for secrecy, regarding both your identities and your actions. For instance ... to turn yourself into a tornado to pursue a getaway vehicle can easily be seen by the public, and the uninitiated press, as reckless endangerment of the public. What if, instead of crashing into a wheat field you have crashed into their house, or a live stock pen? What then?"

Blair

"What kind of ... cause of the glasses. Lil Blair can't see shit without his coke bottles. Can you Blurry," said Jonas the Bailey brother closest in age to Blair.
"Yea, and it kind of sound like Billy does to William, Jimmy to James and Jonny to Jonas but to Blair ..." Billy filled in and did as Blair had said, tied up Erin, hands and feet.
"So ... dear family, if you even deserve to be called that," Blair said and walked around the room staring at each member of the family that had raised them without another word.
They then walked over to Erin who had, after being tied up, been tossed into an armchair.
"You know what Ms Lying Bitch Cop ... I think I am starting to put two and two together now. You still broke your promise to me and for that you will suffer, but I also think I know why you were told to stand down. Let's wait for the others to get here first though."
They turned to their family with a smile.
"Do I need to tie you lot up too or are you going to all sit down quietly and wait for whomever is coming for that bitch?"

Edith

"I wouldn't call it stellar, nor would I really call it a plan. I just went with my instincts, gut feeling. I'm sure you are familiar with it," Edith said having taken her phone, still broadcasting to The Vigilant Eye's live feed, from the holder attached to her motorcycle.
She was now filming handheld again, zooming in on the house into which she had just spotted Blair, Erin and an unidentified male, enter.
"I can however almost taste the Pulitzer ... Can't you?" she added and nodded towards the now empty yard.
"Let's move in closer. Don't want to miss any of the action right."

Su-Ji

She had heard Ginger start moving into the corn field and let out a series of meows to guide her to her position.
"So. They all just went inside the house. It seems however that Blair has at least heard Erin's explanation and taken it at face value.
"I also just heard them tell her that they might know what it was all about back then. They're not saying anything else but seem to be waiting for ... well us."
She touched her ear a if to scratch it.
"This damned ear piece itches," she said.
"You got all that Captain," she asked.
"We're going in ... Send back up when you can."

 

[Frozen Princess]

Route T-14, between the two farms. Windy

Windy bowed her head as she got lectured, letting her superior finish scolding her. She took a deep breath. "Ok, Lt. Rainier, uh, first off, I never told them I was the tornado, just where I started from. Any of you guys with wind velocity weather radar in your car would have known that. I only said it because they asked, and seemed to know it had started in Westbrook. I couldn't lie about that. As far as not hitting livestock or the house, I have most control. I had to fight some kinda weather physics to stay on course until I just couldn't. Maybe that was the jetstream, I dunno. I was like literally being pulled east, like storms go. I didn't mean to threaten lives, well, except the bank robbers', and I think Captain Fitzpatrick would at least partially agree there." She wasn't wrong... Fully.

She sighed. "If it hadn't been a warm fall day, I don't think I would have been able to spin up in the first place. I'd provide the cool air, so it needed to be warm. Wind power was the only thing I could think of to follow them without being seen. I don't know how I got made by the driver, honestly. Conditions today were favorable for a possible tornado. Iowa in September and October, y'know, heh." She glanced over. "Um. Sir."

Captain Fitzpatrick, Windy

Fitzpatrick just glared at the perpetrator in front of her. "That was going to be inevitable, once you robbed the bank." She took a deep breath. "Guess even nature was against you. You've lived here long enough, you can expect so-called freak spinups to happen in warmer weather like this. Especially in the fall, and late afternoon. Earlier during the summer. Really? I've only got one question for you, considering all the other banks in what is now gangland. Why one that was definitely in district 3 jurisdiction? Did you WANT to get caught?"

Seeing Lt Rainier pull up with Windy, who had her helmet now back on, she motioned both to stay in the car, and continue any conversation they were having.

Windy saw the damage she did to the leader, and bit her lower lip. She looked guiltily at Rainier. "I was visible enough as a big windbag to get them to go in the ditch. They did. I didn't mean to hurt the guy that much, crook or not! Just subdue or stop him!"

Then she shouldn't have been a high-end EF-2. She may understand wind and weather dynamics, but must have been absent the day wind speeds, mixed with debris like flying glass, grass blades and gravel could injure a person. Someone wasn't as smart as she thought. Would it earn her more fatherly advice?

Bailey Farm. Yard and house. Sapphire, Ginger (Cardio) Detective Erin Holmes

Sapphire sighed. "Since this was live, and not pre-written, and on MeTube, there's no Pulitzer in either of our futures. Not for this, anyway. Didn't you learn that in Journalism Class? That's first or second year stuff. The only thing we did, and can do, is inform the public of the dangerous person in the vicinity." She looked over at Edith. "We're still doing what we're trained to do, take pride in that. Pulitzers can be won from news events on MeTube. Written stories, well taped and documented. Nothing live, though. If this is how news in Westbrook gets done now, we can still try to earn a Pulitzer on the mess with local air traffic and the shutdown of our airport. Or on these X-Police, or whatever you want to call them." She patted Edith reassuredly. "Didn't mean to burst your bubble or remind you of that painful fact, but lead on, McGee, this story looks like it's yours after all." She actually sounded a bit proud.

Ginger quickly found Cheshire and ducked down to her in the cornfield. "Neighbor across the road has wheat, Bailey's have corn. At least they aren't rivals. We'd probably be ducking flying buckshot in a Hatfield and McCoys style farm feud." She listened as she got up to date. She made a face, for two reasons. A sudden thought, and what Su-Ji just said about the earpieces. "Wait a minute. Didn't our police liaison, Detective Holmes, say something about being here before? I think I might have an idea, Cheshire, but I may at the same time, have to follow your lead. I'm good at leading our house as far as paperwork and rules already established and such... But a team? Even a team of two? Also, it sounds like the Captain already put you in charge of the field unit. Our backup may already be here, but I don't know what the reporters could do."

Erin continued watching the situation around her, missing important clues Sherlock Holmes himself wouldn't have. Little things like tones weren't lost on her, and neither were movements. But true observation of the person meant she'd miss subtleties. She raised an eyebrow, not missing the sarcasm as Blair said "dear family". Even Nancy Drew, who she was most like, couldn't miss that. "You forget something. The police aren't going to just barge in here. It's not their style. The place is most likely surrounded already, waiting on your first move. You have hostages. Play your cards right, we all walk out of here. You included."

Apparently, a thought occurred to her, and she suddenly sounded like Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures "One more thing. Think where and whom your revenge is really directed. My past captain who is the current Commissioner, your family, or me. You just said you think you know why I was told to stand down. You have an advantage even on me. I never figured that out. I only had assumptions, that have only gotten stronger with the gift of district 2 land to the gangs by the mayor, and the subsequent disbanding of district 2. There's still power plays being made today by those in charge of even Westbrook PD. Guess where THAT'S coming from. If you side with us, you could easily get your revenge on the commissioner, yet, and it won't even be illegal."

 

[Inkybus]

Kneeling on the asphalt - Schro

Captain Fitzpatrick spun a nice bit of yarn, trying to convince Schro that the whirlwind had been a freak occurrence, something natural. The masked robber did not give any signs that he believed that and kept his mouth shut: the commanding officer of the police, who had hindered the bank robbery at every possible turn, couched a new topic.

"Not as much as your Detective did, my dear Captain. But hey, at least she's gone with the flow, avoiding nettling Wreck-it-Betty. Probably the only reason her spine isn't in the shape of a pretzel yet!"

As he spoke, the super-powered voyeur looked out through Blair's eyes, at the underwear-clad young woman. Another person twinged his powers something fierce: looking around, Schro's eyes settled upon Windy, who seemed to be somewhat distraught over his current condition.

He tilted his head, looking at the somewhat familiar young woman, before the helmet she wore registered in his mind's eye. The cognito hazard put the clues together: this had to be the person that caught him in the belly with a brick not even more than forty-eight hours ago!

"Hah! Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me…"

The criminal said softly, self-depricatingly and with steely determination to avoid losing against this metahuman a third time. One thing, he wanted over all else: to get even and to avoid getting got by this inhumanly quick person again.

 

[MsBloom]

Edith @Frozen Princess

Despite Sapphire's scepticism and the lecture to explain it Edith still felt confident about a Pulitzer in both their futures.
"Not that I ever took journalism in college but while uncommissioned live feeds on social media like MeTube might not be an actual Pulitzer Prize category, what we're doing could also be categorised as Breaking News and Breaking News Photography and they are."
A smile spread across her face and continued by adding that there was also the documentary they could use it for.
"Y'know, the whole thing, with the meteor, the cover up, the Metas, the tie ins with Chelyabinsk, Tunguska, Area 51 ... Who knows where this might all lead when we really start digging into it. Maybe we could sell the idea to Dotflics or the JBO Network as a series."

Even though she had from time to time used her her VigilantEye account on MeTube to do live feeds and exposures Edith had never really had any journalistic ambitions per se. It had been something of a hobby that had started with herself and Ella back in high school exposing a teacher who offered his less academically successful female students better grades in exchange for certain favours. The live feed with hidden camera and the follow up interviews with some of the targeted students had hit their school like a ton of bricks and the teacher had been fired and prosecuted.

After that she had done a few breaking news feeds back in Rochester and a few short follow up documentaries, mostly on similar topics, like the one she had made about a bouncer at a local club who was willing to allow minors into the club for the same sort of favours. She had also done a few around campus in Westbrook like the one about the football coach handing out steroids to some of his star players. How she had somehow managed to maintain her anonymity behind the channel she didn't quite know but knew that it was all with the help of Ella.

"As for a plan to get us all out of this alive ..."
Edith just shrugged and kept moving closer to the farmhouse while staying hidden behind a row of low bushes that grew along the side of the driveway that lead to the open farmyard.

Blair

"Alright then bitch," Blair said when Erin asked at whom their revenge was really directed.
Who did he want to punish the most. Erin certainly had been a top candidate but the way things had evolved since she entered the bank they were less sure she was really the right target. It would of course have been satisfying to hurt her and hurt her bad but in the end they realised that it would only be temporary. To expose their family as drug distributors with a possible involvement from Westbrook's highest commanding police officer attached to it was looking ever more tempting.
"I'll show you, but first let's get all these fucktards tied up so they won't get in anyone's way."

They undid the restraints on Erin that their brother had not yet managed to full secure, gave her the rope and told her to help them tie their family up.
"Anyone try anything funny just remember what happened to Jimmy ... alright?"
Then as the Bailey family were all tied up Blair grabbed Erin and dragged her out of the house and into the barn.
"On the loft ... behind they bales of hay," they said and pushed Erin up the ladder.

Behind the mentioned bales of hay Erin would find a substantial cache of drugs, mostly marijuana and meth, in larger enough amounts to suggest it was meant for more than just Westbrook.
"Could that be why your boss told you to just drop me like a burning bag of shit?"

Su-Ji

"Looks like we might not have to lure them out of the house. You go check on Erin. I'll take the house," Cheshire said and nodded at the house as the door opened.
She then began to sneak across the yard, staying out of Blair's sight but giving a nod at Edith and Sapphire as she passed them.
"Let's see what we have inside, shall we," she whispered to herself and also for the benefit of everyone else listening in.

 

[Frozen Princess]

T-14 near Bailey Farm driveway.

Windy and Lt. Rainier listened in on their radio earpieces. She got herself back together, best she could and nodded, as Rainier quickly drove to the location less than five minutes away. The three law there were going to need true backup, more than the reporters could physically give. They would hear Erin's surprise epitaph on the way there.

Bailey Farm. Hayloft

Erin was up the ladder fairly quick, being one of the most athletic on the force. When she moved the haybales and saw the stash, she couldn't help herself. "¡Mierda en un palo! There's enough here to cover all of Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois and Missouri several inches deep!" A... Slight exaggeration. But not by much, considering the populous in their part of the country. "Or at least to send Chicago into orbit! ¡Cielo arriba!"

She looked down at Blair. "This on top of all the physical abuse you were getting? I can understand your hesitation to trust the police now, but ten years ago, we even had a different mayor. Surely, you could have told someone without them knowing. Imagine what I could have done if I had known!" She shook her head. "What's done is done. We know now. With your testimony, we can have your so-called, ugh, familia locked up for the rest of their lives. This has been going on that long, then? Maybe even years before I came the only time?" She held her hand up like she was sticking a pin in the question to answer later. "If you're right, which I'm beginning to think you might, the Commissioner is just as guilty of drug trafficking as they are, and accessory to your abuse." She came down the ladder and looked at Blair determined. "Your familia could not be smart enough to be head of this operation, but they absolutely know who is. I really wish I had some clothes now. Not to mention my badge and gun."

Reporters

Sapphire glanced quickly at Edith. "If you're right about a government cover-up, that goes all the way to the top. Right now, l wouldn't mind a look into those other farm brutes past doings. I'm sure even you can sense that there's so much more to the story. Let's hold off continuing live coverage, for something slightly more tape delayed so we CAN at least be nominated for a Pulitzer and not put ourselves in unnecessary risk by facing them. Not without a definite plan. They see our phones out, who knows how they'll act... We'll get a story, alright; by BEING the story. I personally don't want you on the ten o'clock news that way."

Ginger

Taking a breath, nodding and patting Cheshire's shoulder, Ginger followed the duo to the barn, where she looked around for an opening to look in as she saw Erin climb a ladder.

Spotting a small hole in the roof, she didn't wonder why it was there, but was thankful for it, and thus rode the Earth's magnetic current, and levitated up so she could peer inside. She whispered Erin's epitaph, but in English. "Shit on a stick!" She quickly levitated away. "Damn. I can't unsee that. No wonder there's been a drug problem at Westbrook College for the last two years I know of! I heard drugs there had been getting bad, there and elsewhere in Iowa and Illinois at least, but damn! I don't know what the code is, and Cheshire, sorry for stepping on your cat toes, but we got a cache of illegal contraband. Erin can't say what it is, but code name Coca-Cola, Mary Jane and who knows what else, but I got a good size idea."

(I'm sorry. Best I can do, I lost my second page of notes. See Rants journal for why.)

 

[Inkybus]

Kneeling on the asphalt - Schro

Waiting for Captain Fitzpatrick or anyone else to come up with a beautiful retort or any more questions, Schro refused to give them metaphorical ammunition and turned his attention even more towards his power. Losing his sight, Schro observed Blair's point of View and the point of view of a few officers that were under Fitzpatricks command or close employees, directing various efforts to deal with other crimes that sprang up as a result of the bank robbery in the first place.

Schro did not care about any of it, as he kept an ear out for any more questions and one ear out to listen to what was going on around Blair's perception.

 

[MsBloom]

Edith

Sensing that there was a lot more to whatever was going on, that there was something about these mid-western farmers that had driven Blair to become who they were, didn't take a genius. This would have been news even without the meteor. Edith was not entirely sure it was Blair's motivation to expose it.
"We could do that," Edith said but shook her head.
"Or ... you could do that Ms Newshound. Look we have back up," she added referring to the signal they had booth received from Cheshire as she had moved past them.
Then without another word she began to move towards the farmhouse, still streaming live.

Su-Ji

Inside the farm house Cheshire found the Bailey family all tied up and gagged with pieces of cloth and belts. She stopped for a moment, scratched her ear and her nose. There was nothing inside that needed any of her recently acquired abilities which was a bit disappointing but then again the whole situation seemed to unfold without much drama.
"Nice to meet you folks," she said trying her best to mimic a cliché Midwestern accent.
"Y'all just stay right where you are. The police will be here soon to pick y'all up."
She had of course heard Erin over the com and figured out that releasing these people would be a serious mistake.
"I'd say your best chance, when Detective Holmes returns, is to co operate with her."
She bit softly on her bottom lip exposing one of her upper fangs and then moved back out to assist Cardio, if needed.

Blair

"This still doesn't mean I entirely forgive you though," Blair said.
"Maybe you had orders, as a cop, to stand down and not stir up any trouble for my family but you could have returned as a concerned citizen perhaps. If for no other reason than to check up on me, maybe give me a way out without involving social services. You must realise just how badly I have wanted to hurt you, considering I just robbed a bank to get your attention."
They paused momentarily and glanced over at the farm house just in time to noticed Cheshire sneaking in.
"I see you managed to get your henchmen, or whatever they are, here as well."
They nodded in the direction from which Cardio was approaching to show Erin they had seen them both.
"Where's the other one, the tornado. At least I assume that was one of your special back up team. Nice touch I must say. The colour gave her away though. Tornadoes that stick to the roads are extremely rare, especially pink ones. Maybe you should call them off before they do anything stupid, like freeing my family, or trying to drop something heavy on me."

Holding Erin firmly by the arm to show that she was still their hostage Blair walked to the entrance into the barn and raised their other hand.
"Listen bitch," they said as they pulled Erin closer and pushed her in front of themself.
"We both know that neither you nor your captain have the authority to offer me any kind of acceptable deal in exchange for what I just showed you. I did rob a bank after all, my motivation to do so can't exactly be called mitigating circumstances. So ... I am going to let you go so that your back up can take care of you, and maybe get you some clothes, and then I am going to walk away from here before the real cops show up and you and your back up is going to let me. Do we understand each other?"
They looked at the other two metahumans who had just arrived as well as at Erin when they asked the question.
"If you do decide to try to follow me I will not be responsible for the consequences."
They smiled and once again looked at Velocity and Cardio.
"I am sure you still remember what happened the last time we met."

 

[Frozen Princess]

T-14 @ Crash Site

Fitzpatrick looked coolly at Schro for his remark, she assumed ,about Windy being a "Wreck-It-Betty", not thinking he might be referring to Blair. She also didn't miss the last remark about fooling him once... "Oh? And what would you know about anything regarding that? Near as we can figure, the only wrecking ball was your juggernaut friend who destroyed a diner." She motioned to the EMTs "Get him to the hospital, get the rest of him looked over..."

Fitzpatrick then heard about the find at the barn, hearing Ginger's call signs. "You want to repeat that about your find, officer Lady Magneto? More calmly this time?" She glanced at Schro being loaded into the ambulance. "I'm sure, since you can somehow hear what I do, what she just said? Did you know anything about this? Or are you as thrown as the rest of us?" After Schro's answer, he'd be on his way to Main Street General, the hospital qualified to hold injured perpetrators in their own ward, on the sixth floor, with bars and shatterproof glass. The old psychiatric ward before a better one was built near Community Hospital (for Amaya to know about, having worked at Community. She could even know when it was built and how it's connected if it is, or separate building).

Farm: Windy, Cardio, Erin

After exchanging glances with Rainier, whom Windy just learned was her lead and partner, with Erin over them both, Windy hopped out of the car and ran at well under her top superspeed, the few seconds to the barn.

"You okay, detective, you need...." Windy glanced over the frame of the detective still in her underwear. It was a good thing her tinted visor hid Windy's eyes. So no one could see how they bugged out. Loni might've slapped her upside her head.Clearing her throat uneasily, she said, "Well, something else besides clothes?"

Erin gave her a stern look. "Really, Velocity? Think, girl!"

Cardio was there next, looking like a gym rat, instead of her later heroine self. She repeated more calmer the two codewords she knew to Fitzpatrick, before she addressed Blair more than her boss. "If I may be so bold... All this nonsense so you could get attention on your crimeboss family? Why not just call the police?"

Erin laid a gentle calming hand on Blair's shoulder. "Allow me." She turned to Ginger, "Cardio. One, we don't know how far this goes up the ladder. Two, we don't know how many officers at our precinct or the other three remaining are or were on the take. Three, it's not just drugs Blair had to be wary of, but their own family." She looked at Blair. "Did I cover everything?"

Fitzpatrick had sent the paddywagon and several other officers on to the farm ahead of herself to round up Blair's family. They were definitely arrested for manufacture and selling of illegal drugs. They couldn't get out of this without help from whoever was in charge here.

(Since both main villains are NPC, we can discuss in OOC which it is)

Sapphire

The lead reporter for Channel 3 filmed the proceedings without her usual Newshound commentary, because this wasn't going live. As big as this story was, she wanted to do a LOT more digging. She frowned as she watched Erin, a detective, deflect the heroine's question as if Blair wasn't under arrest. She also watched Erin wave off her subordinate, Lt Detective Oscar Rainier from handcuffing Blair. "What the Sam hell is she doing?! He's a criminal! There's history here... Obviously." She mused.

Quickly, she called Edith. "What have you found at the house? I'm glad I switched to taped from live. I think the good detective is hiding something about what happened here about seven or eight years ago. It involves the Wrecking Ball. I need your help with digging out the report from the police files."

 

[Inkybus]

Kneeling on the asphalt - Schro

Schro raised an eyebrow when the Captain assumed Windy was whom he was referring to when he spoke the nickname. "I was referring to my erstwhile passenger." The non-psychic enunciated slowly, a hue of mockery in his dose of tones towards the leader of law enforcement in the area.

Unsure as to whether the Captain was referring to the fact Blair's family were part of the drug production chain or abusing Blair… even something else, perhaps, the young man raised his arms and winced immediately after that shrug-movement: his injury did not make things easy.

"Consider me thrown."

That was the last he said, since immediately after the EMS people were tasked with bringing him to the hospital for treatment, pending a transfer to jail or prison after he was confirmed to be in stable enough condition for it.

 

[MsBloom]

Cheshire/Edith

Edith arrived at the farm house shortly after Cheshire and followed her in, filming the restrained Bailey family who both begged Cheshire to untie them and save them from the maniac freak. Not quite sure what had happened she kept quiet but zoomed in on them all while Cheshire began to explain to the collected Bailey family that she knew about what was on the loft of their barn. She had after all heard all about it, not only through the earpiece, which still itched and she couldn't help but to scratch her ear, and that she was not about to do either of what they asked of her. She just wanted to make sure they were not hurt and also to make sure they didn't manage to get away before the police arrived to have them all arrested, if that was what Captain Fitzpatrick wanted to do. She was reasonably certain that Erin wanted them all arrested, not just for the drugs but for child abuse as well.
"She's probably trying to make a deal with Blair as we speak.

Somewhat annoyed at the call from Sapphire interrupting her scoop Edith answered the call and explained what she had found inside, adding what Cheshire had revealed about the stash inside the barn.
"If you want a scoop for the six o'clock I suggest you focus on that for now. I'll be out shortly if you need an official camera person for the report."
She then nodded at Cheshire and did her usual over and out from The Vigilant Eye: "And that's all for now folks. I'll be back with a follow up if needed."
She then cut the stream and went back outside to retrieve her more regular equipment from the saddle bag of her motorcycle before following Sapphire to the barn for an official report on the find, with some back story as to how they got there.

Lt. Oscar Rainier

"You stay right ..." Oscar Rainier sighed as the human tornado took off through the cornfield and then turned to his captain.
"I can take two officers and head on down to the farm as official back up for Erin," he suggested and nodded at two of the uniformed officers that weren't directly occupied with trying to keep Schro in check.
"And someone need to teach that bratty little speedster proper chain of command. If I am to somehow be her mentor I need her to understand that she cannot just go off like that on her own. You're the one that deputised these amateurs which means that's your job."

Captain Fitzpatrick nodded at both of Lt. Rainier's requests and ordered the two uniforms he had indicated to follow him.
"I'll have a serious talk with all of them at the debriefing later, and not just the metas either. I think we need to keep their pr team in check too.

Blair

"The important bits at least," Blair said and did as they had promised.
They let go of Erin, looked at Velocity and Cardio.
"Now I expect that neither of you will be stupid enough to follow me."
They then turned to Erin gave her a nod to signal that while they were not about to forgive her for her broken promise all those years ago their main revenge was no longer directed at them but also that they had only completed the first part of it.
"I will contact you with all the information you might need to really nail my family's asses to the wall but I am not about to let you arrest me."

They then walked right through the back wall of the barn, leaving a hole of broken planks behind them and broke into a run that to a normal person would be considered quick. They circumvented the farm and came up on the police from behind shortly after Rainier had left to assist Erin in clearing up the mess at the farm.

"Hey," they said and walked up to them with their arms held out as if challenging them to do their worst.
"I'll be needing my partner back, and a vehicle to take us out of here. And just to be clear it would be a real shame if anyone should try to play the hero and try to stop us."
To drive home their point they smashed up all the vehicles except for the ambulance which they simply threw the driver out of and got into the driver's seat and drove away back towards Westbrook.
"You badly injured back there," the asked Schro?
"Do I need to drop you somewhere to get stitched up?"